Book Quotes · Page 210

My life is open book but I dont allow everyone to read it

— Hussein Nishah

A lot of my book, 'The Price of Inequality,' is about why there has been an increase in rent-seeking.

— Joseph Stiglitz

“The Book of Job depicted the discovery of the devil in deity.”

— Charlotte Spivack

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

— Karen Marie Moning

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

— Aleister Crowley

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.

— Galileo Galilei

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

— Jessamyn West

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

— Jonathan Carroll

“I want to see my wife and children every day, I want to see my grass and blossoms and corn ... But…

— John Adams

I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all…

— Saul Williams

The issue is that my book, and so many others, are not available for pre-order from Amazon. I hadn't realized how much…

— Edan Lepucki

As long as a man had the courage to reject what society told him to do, he could live life on his…

— Paul Auster

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can…

— China Mieville

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible…

— Hilary Duff

I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see…

— Jodi Hills

... Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me...Surely…

— Anonymous

When I finish a book, I'll go to that file and look through them. And I'll say, these are three that really…

— Matt de la Pena

“This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from…

— Parker J. Palmer

“He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On…

— Mark Haddon

“Anyone getting starry-eyed about owning a bookstore should ask herself a few questions: Can you lift a box weighing fifty pounds? Do…

— Wendy Welch

For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything…

— Scott Bradfield

... you should wait until the book is finished before making a judgment on its content. By the time you have gone…

— Walter Mosley

I don't know a lot of writers, even writers who have been on the bestseller list for a few weeks, or writers…

— Debra Monroe

It's different to read a book for pleasure than to read it analytically. In the past, I'd read Pride and Prejudice for…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

— George Bernard Shaw

“A real book is not one that’s read, but one that reads us.”

— Amit Tiwari

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“i like the book my bloody life because it tell what gange related do and what makeks them feel bad ”

— Sanchez Raymundo

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

— Lara Dutta

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

— Nat Hentoff

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

— Christine Feehan

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

— Mae West

For me, as a fan, when I read book series, I tend to be the most judgmental of the last book.

— Marie Lu

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

— Malala Yousafzai

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

— James Gunn

“The truth is, when I'm immersed in a book I'm less aware of the pain in my unpredictable arms and legs.”

— Christina Baker Kline

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

— Margot Kidder

Books are like sapphires; they must be polished - polished! or else you insult your readers.

— Margaret Deland

Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read.

— Alberto Manguel